e avẽo que por esto |a ouvéra pois a perder.†CSM 345:14The combined metrical syllable a ou- resulting from synalepha in a ouvera falls here on single punctum.o in the music, but elision is obviously not an option.

Synaeresis is required in viía here, and is common elsewhere in forms of the verb veer.

Standard spelling

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Footnotes

E1:

Once again, the [E] music scribe just copied the refrain melody for the vuelta, but this leaves the line one note/ligature short, since quando foi o apelido here in the first stanza has eight syllables, whereas faz aos seus entender in the refrain has just seven. Since the refrain line has final stress (i.e. a masculine rhyme) and the stanza line has an extra unstressed syllable (i.e. a feminine rhyme), the best musical solution is obviously just to add an extra punctum at this point, at same pitch as the preceding virga. The latter then needs to remain 'unperfected' (with two beats, not three) in order to keep the rhythm straight.

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Metrical summary

Refrain

7' | 7 7' | 7

Stanzas

7' | 7' 7' | 7' 7' | 7' 7' | 7

Rhyme

AA / bbbA

R

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

A

eɾ

b

ido

ando

aɾa

uɾo

ado

ɔste

ado

ase

i.as

i.a

aɾoŋ

R

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

XVI

XVII

XVIII

XIX

XX

XXI

XXII

A

eɾ

b

anʦa

iʎa

iɲo

ɛla

ade

endo

ei̯to

aɾa

udo

ada

ɛɾoŋ

Estimated performance times

Average syllables / min.

Time

Very slow

50

41:31

Slow

100

20:45

Medium

150

13:50

Fast

200

10:22

Very fast

250

8:18

These are very approximate total times for a full sung (or spoken) performance of all stanzas with all repeats of the refrain.
Note that the speed is in average syllables per minute, and no particular mensural interpretation is assumed.
More ornamented music will reduce the syllabic speed considerably. Remember also to add time for instrumental preludes,
interludes and postludes.

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